“Not true,” Burkhardt said. Maverick Carter, who handles Manziel’s marketing efforts and who some think is behind the notion that Manziel doesn’t want to play for the Jaguars, was with Burkhardt at the time the denial was issued.

One one hand, Manziel has no reason to admit he doesn’t want to play in Jacksonville, if he doesn’t want to play in Jacksonville. On the other hand, he ultimately has no say in the process, unless he plans to sit out for a year and re-enter the draft.

Manziel should have no issues with playing in Jacksonville. The team is coming together nicely under G.M. Dave Caldwell and coach Gus Bradley, and the fan base craves a competitive team. Manziel could help give them that.

And since the team has a limited history of success, Manziel could quickly become the King of Jacksonville, supplanting a certain five-letter quarterback who currently works for the four-letter network’s enterprise that blankets the three-letter conference in which they both played.

Nice spin job by his agent. They overestimated the backlash against the “rumor” that he wouldn’t want to play in Jax and are now in spin mode status. Granted, Jacksonville is a boring place with very little in the way of quality restaurants (count them all on one hand), but the people are great and the weather isn’t too bad if you like humidity.

As a hawks fan he would excel under Gus Bradley and Pete Carroll system of having fun but ALWAYS COMPETING . He would do great especially in they terrible division . It’s a lot easier to rise to the top 8 in the AFC than NFC . He would become a star in Jax and bring even more excitement than the coach already has. Jax is about 2 full seasons maybe shorter from being a fringe playoff team with a chance their needles definielty facing up .

I hope he goes there and does good id like for jacksonville to get back to winning games and being good even though im not one of there fans but id like to see manziel do good there if hes drafted by them

A group of 30 multi multi millionaires decided in the 90’s that Jax would be a great place for an NFL franchise based of multiple RFPs loads of economic & demographic data, but Joe Shmoe’s opinion as to how deserves a franchise is more valid? Got it.

As you can tell from the comments here, the agent shouldn’t have bothered. People are going to believe what they are going to believe.

Never mind the fact that it is every bit as likely that a team drafting behind the Jags would spread the rumor that he didn’t want to play there in order to get them not to draft him as it is that he or someone in his camp would be dumb enough to let it get out that they didn’t want to play for a team picking in the Top 3.

Manziel isn’t John Elway or even Eli Manning coming into the draft. He doesn’t have the juice to dictate where he goes. I think his people are smart enough to know that. That’s why it’s more likely that the agent is telling the truth.

Yeah, you guys are right. Jacksonville is a terrible place. Hot women, beautiful beaches, beautiful weather, tons of golf courses, and shopping. I would much rather go to some northern city where it’s freezing cold by the time you hit October, the cost of living is absurd, and all of the women still think it’s 1985. Oh I forgot to mention, Florida has no state income tax. Yeah, J-ville sounds like a really bad place.

As a Jags fan, I’m not sure which way I want us to go. I want the best player and the best QB. To have someone with a little star power would be nice too. You know he already has endorsement deals and to see him do those deals as a Jaguar would be great. In the ideal world, we trade down a few spots and still able to get him.